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Word: faste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an air arm knocking the Chinese Army on top of the head while infantry dealt uppercut after uppercut, the Japanese went ahead fast-along the corridor into Hunan from Kiangsi, to within 20 miles of Changsha. At week's end Chinese Government officials said that the city, being unimportant strategically, would soon be abandoned. At one time, said Japanese reports, the Chinese front broke and fled so hysterically that they ran bang into their own advancing reinforcements, milling like frightened lambs. Calmly the Japanese strafed and bombed the whole bloody tangle. Fortnight's casualties, according to Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Chinese Corridor | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Winthrop took the ball to within the ten yard line twice in a fast, exciting last quarter, only to be turned back on the ground and in the air. Finally Lowell, with the time being reckoned in seconds, gained possession of the ball on the six yard line, only to fumble the ball behind the goal line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Snatch 2-0 Win From Lowell; Kirkland Overcomes Bunny Team 12-0 | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

...Mind you I do not contend that a team can get out there and play catch all afternoon. Many an enemy outfit, with a fast and smart defense, will have you cating passes before quitting time if you can't do anything but peg to second base," the T. C. U. mentor writes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Texas Coach Says Aerial Football Most Effective | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...With a fast moving script of short episodes tied together by the announcer's comment, "Adventures In Education" will stress a new technique devoted especially to entertainment. Although describing the work of the Undergraduate Faculty, the program is really a play in itself along the lines of "The March of Time." Script writing and direction are in the hands of Lawrence Lader, '41, and Lincoln Bloomfield '41, while the east includes Raymond Dennett, Gradoste Secretary of Brooks House, Langdon Burwell '41, John Kessler, '42, Lader and Bloom field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. WILL INTRODUCE NOVEL RADIO SERIES | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

...doing in U. S. pictures. Gail knew all the answers and none of them was masculine. But when cocksure Bill Burnett (self-consciously cute Fred MacMurray) blew in from Bali like a tropical monsoon, scripters were hard put to it to keep him from thawing icy Gail too fast, convincing her too soon that woman's place is in the home when not in the maternity ward. Vainly trying to stave off this inevitable ending, they tossed in trim Noel Van Ness (Danish-born Cinemactress Osa Massen), also blown in from Bali and quite tropical too about Burnett. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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